At Poynter event, Jessica Yellin discusses reporting the news minus the anxiety
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Poynter Institute earlier this month honored two longtime Washington political reporters who went on to build their own news businesses and spoke with them at a dinner salon about the news industry, political reporting today, reaching new audiences and more.
Last week, we brought you a short Q&A with one of the honorees, Mike Allen of Axios. Today, we share one with Jessica Yellin.
Yellin, founder of News Not Noise, reaches 1.3 million people on Instagram, Substack and other platforms. Before striking out on her own to provide news and context on social media, Yellin was former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy, Peabody and Gracie Award-winning political correspondent for ABC, MSNBC and CNN.
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